Voting and song contests: Economics, law, history and practice - CEOS #19

CEOS-Cultural Economics Online Seminar on Voting and song contests: Economics, law, history and practice Tuesday 6 December at 9-10am GMT.
Song contests, and in particular the Eurovision Song Context, have attracted a good deal of research in various disciplines. Our joint presentations, contributed by Juan D. Moreno-Ternero and Dean Vuletic, will offer insights on how voting procedures can affect outcomes? Who are better judges? What are fairness implications? What are the methodological challenges of this multidisciplinary research and how does it contribute to academia, pedagogy and practice?
Juan D. Moreno-Ternero is a Professor at the Department of Economics, University Pablo de Olavide, Seville (Spain). He is an Honorary Member of the Spanish Economic Association. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Alicante. His research interests include distributive justice, welfare economics, health economics, and political economy, in which he widely published. He currently serves as co-Editor of Mathematical Social Sciences, as well as Associate Editor of Economic Theory, Social Choice and Welfare, and Economic Theory Bulletin. He recently published with Victor Ginsburgh the paper “The Eurovision Song Contest: voting rules, biases and rationality” in the Journal of Cultural Economics (2022).
Dr. Dean Vuletic is a historian of contemporary Europe. He is the author of the first-ever scholarly book on the history of Eurovision, Postwar Europe and the Eurovision Song Contest (Bloomsbury, 2018), and a co-editor with Adam Dubin and Antonio Obregón of the volume The Eurovision Song Contest as a Cultural Phenomenon (Routledge, 2022). He is also the lecturer behind the world's first university course on Eurovision, which he began teaching at New York University and has since taught at the University of Vienna (Austria) and Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic). Dubbed "Professor Song Contest”, he is also a prominent commentator on Eurovision in the international media.
The seminar will be moderated by CEOS coordinator Elisabetta Lazzaro. Voir moins